Graphic Subjects

A teeter-totter of critical essays focused on autobiographical comics work. Maus gets pounded out from every angle then we get a winding journey down the graphic theory rabbithole. A couple of sly academic tricks get played, including an "everything-is-everything" reading of "Watchmen" as autobio (in which case I think they could've chosen a non-autobio comic that's not also a blockbuster movie to prove this point, but, c'est la vie). My favorite of this 'thology so far is Pheobe Gloeckner's terse and grumpy "everything-is-nothing" explaination of autobiography as an imploded conceit. There's smart and often contradictory moves in here, a nice sampling of how and why autobio comics have in a large part brought modern critical validity to the medium. -EF

$pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution ed. by Audacia Ray, Eliyanna Kaiser & Rachel Aimee (The Feminist Press) $24.95 - Stories from and about $pread, published by and for sex workers, from 2005-2011.
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